Georgia Health Policy Center

Community Health Systems Development

Academic Presentations

Triple Layer Chess: A Metaphor for the Alignment of Health Policy
The Georgia Health Policy Center employs an approach to research translation and policy application that is analogous to facilitating a game of triple layer chess. GHPC translates findings from research in a way that assists players at each level to understand opportunities for “winning the game” by integrating their own strategies decisions with those of players on the other two levels.

External Facilitation and Technical Assistance in Improving the Clinical Relevance and Financial Viability of Rural Health Systems
A study to examine the role of targeted external facilitation and technical assistance in improving the collaboration, clinical relevance, and financial viability of rural health systems.

Rogers’ Replication Revisited: Navigating the Complexity of Health Networks
A study is to examine the application of Roger’ diffusion framework to community health networks.

Understanding Health Disparities fundamental Causes and Pathways
An examination of the role that social determinants play in a population’s access to quality health care.

Promoting Access to Health in an Eight State Southern Region
The Southern Regional Health Consortium is dedicated to considering not just access to health care, but access to health itself for a part of the population that persistently lags behind.

The Role of Technical Assistance: The Right TA at the Right Time
This analysis explores the effectiveness of the technical assistance in enhancing the sustainability of RHNs and defines areas for future research assessing rural community health systems.

Events

Celebrating Georgia’s Rural Health Networks Sustainability and Resource Acquisition Intensives
This study examines the more than 64 rural Georgia counties working within rural health networks to fill gaps in access and availability to health and human services.

Issue Briefs

Improving Rural Health: How Healthy are Rural Georgians?
An examination by the Philanthropic Collaborative for a Healthy Georgia on the health status of rural Georgians. The fact that Georgians living in rural areas are not as healthy as those living in urban areas is a major source of concern as is the fact that no county in Georgia has an “excellent” health status.

Reports

Celebrating Georgia’s Rural Health Networks Sustainability and Resource Acquisition Intensives
A celebration of an investment to build rural communities capacity and support 34 new initiatives within 64 rural Georgia communities.

Health Care Central Georgia: Pioneers for the Uninsured
Information regarding the strides made by regional leaders in designing and sustaining a successful health network for their uninsured residents in seven counties of Georgia; Bibb, Crawford, Houston, Jones, Monroe, Peach, and Twiggs.

Greene – Morgan – Putnam Health Network: United in the Race for Health
A focus on the region of Lake Oconee and the three rural counties: Greene, Morgan, and Putnam

Habersham County Medical Center: Still going Strong
A case study of Habersham County as one of the early leaders in the movement to adopt a population-based approach to health care.

East Georgia Health Cooperative: A Symphony of Services
A focus on the eastern region of Georgia in nine isolated counties referred to as the “poor belt” of Georgia...

Jefferson County Access Program: Further Down the Road
The focus is the Jefferson County Access Program. This program provides comprehensive diabetic case management through several rural health clinics.